Teddy Roosevelt knew not to trust Russia. I forget the exact quote, but it was essentially, “hey, they seem like nice guys, but I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them.” And the Russian diplomats who negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth were like 6’5" and 300+ lbs.
12 Likes
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
7 Likes
Good thing he has insurance.
13 Likes
So is this a “Nice community you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it.” kind of thing? “you have not sufficiently groveled before me. Consider yourself purged.” WTAF???
11 Likes
These guys really have a thing for quid pro quo, don’t they?
11 Likes
4 Likes
At this point, that’s almost all the Department does. Is she volunteering to resign? I don’t think a cabinet secretary can dissolve their own department, or else other Trump appointments would have already done so.
9 Likes
Exactly. At their cores, the view of conservatives like Barr isn’t much different from that of the street-level thug who shakes down local merchants or that of the feudal warlord exacting tribute from the serfs.
11 Likes
If they won’t do any patrols and just stay out of our neighborhoods, I’m actually okay with that; it’s not like anyone around my way ever willingly calls the police, anyway.
At this point, I’d trust my community to police itself more than the actual authorities; chances of surviving any engagement would be much higher.
16 Likes
Ah, that assumes they will allow self-policing. Whatchawannabet that any effort in this direction get met with full force “suppression of vigilante justice” shit.
9 Likes
Dont be ridiculous; I know my history, and I know that would never happen.
As a people, Black folks have never been able to build anything for ourselves in this country that was not torn asunder and razed to the ground with furious malice by those who hate us.
Rosewood, Black Wall Street, the Red Summer of 1919…
Not much has really changed but the date and the methodology.
16 Likes
I hate it that you are right, but you are right.
13 Likes
Believe me, I hate being “right” about shit like this.
I’d happily be ‘wrong’ all the damn time, if meant actually living in a fair and just world.
Pipe dreams, I know…
11 Likes
This, exactly, for my area as well.
We’d be safer, and there would be fewer deaths.
9 Likes
OT, but that’s such a short poem, it’s odd to see only the last 3 lines out of 8. Jarring to me.
8 Likes
I guess those are the most famous lines; they are the only ones that I remembered by heart after all this time.
8 Likes
Before or after they make student loans fall on descendants if the original loaner dies?
10 Likes
I had to use a search engine to discover whether that was a joke
5 Likes
I did a search before posting to see if anyone had proposed that. 
It seems designed to create class of debt peons out of anyone who’d dare to climb the hierarchy. i.e. a tax on upward mobility bootstraps.
7 Likes
I guess I still don’t know if it was a joke
I didn’t find any news articles with those keywords in them
3 Likes
